Word: gordian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...takes its title from the legend of Philoctetes, who was first abandoned by the Greeks during the Trojan war because of a noisome, incurable wound, then sought out by them because of his magically invincible bow-symbol of the man of genius as pariah-savior and of the Gordian interdependence of power and neurosis. The two most important pieces in The Wound and the Bow are studies of that symbol in terms of1) Dickens, 2) Kipling...
...Minister of Works and Buildings Sir John Reith. With the assistance of Consulting Engineer Colonel Howard Humphreys as Director of Works, and Architect Thomas S. Tait as Director of Standardization, he last week submitted a reconstruction plan of vast perspective to the Cabinet. In it he recommended that such Gordian knots as land-tenure complexities and conflicting powers of local authorities be resolutely slashed, that reconstruction be planned on a mammoth scale with decentralized industry, new housing arrangements and social amenities for workers, highway planning, and reapportionment of land on the principle that all land of whatever category must...